Vice President Joe Biden’s imitation of a foreign accent on Thursday — whether it was meant to be Indian or Russian — isn’t the first instance of a politician making a fake accent faux pas. POLITICO recalls three of the most memorable:

1. On April 5, 1995, New York Sen. Alfonse D’Amato mocked the O.J. Simpson trial judge with a fake Japanese accent on Don Imus’s nationally syndicated radio show. The trial, which started in January and would run until October of that year, had gone on far too long, D’Amato complained. He blamed Judge Lance Ito and adopted a mock Japanese accent, saying “Judge Ito will never let it end. Judge Ito loves the limelight. He is making a disgrace of the judicial system, little Judge Ito.”

D’Amato shortly apologized after being blasted by politicians, the press and Japanese-American leaders, saying the fake accent he employed was “totally wrong and inappropriate.”

2. When Hillary Clinton made a campaign stop in Selma, Ala. in 2007, she conveniently adopting a southern drawl for her appearance at the historic First Baptist Church. “We have to stay awake. We have a march to finish. On this floor today, let us say with one voice the words of James Cleveland’s great freedom hymn,” Clinton said, before moving into a southern accent.

“I don’t feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don’t believe he brought me this far to leave me,” she said in a southern lilt.

3. Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) mocked tea partiers in Congress in an April 2011 interview with radio host Stephanie Miller. Sanchez said that it was difficult to build relationships and try to pass legislation with them since “everything to them is unconstitutional.”

“Hey what’s your name?’ My name is Moe,’” Sanchez said with a fake Southern drawl. “Ok Moe. Moe-ster, how are you doing baby? What are we going to do today? What’s your interest? What can we work on together?”

“‘Well, Loretta, it’s unconstitutional,’” she added with her fake twang.